Queen Anne's Revenge

[H.H. Buggfuzz]

I read today that the remains of a ship found off the NC coast may be Blackbeard's pirate ship. Some artifacts have been recovered dating to the early 1700's. About 20 cannon, some coins and dishes recovered so far.

[DonaldBaker]

I read today that the remains of a ship found off the NC coast may be Blackbeard's pirate ship. Some artifacts have been recovered dating to the early 1700's. About 20 cannon, some coins and dishes recovered so far.

Oh I bet that would amount to a very tidy sum.  I wonder who will gain the rights to those artifacts?  Hopefully the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will get them. :-)

[Phidippides]

I wonder how they figure it would be Blackbeard's ship.  I imagine there would have had to be any number of ships that sailed off the coast of the Carolinas during that period - pirate, military, commercial, civilian.  How can they just so happen to narrow it down to a figure who is popular in modern folklore?

[Stumpfoot]

http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/qar/default.htm

This is the official site of the "dig".

[Phidippides]

I just saw this today, which seems like a confirmation of the same we've heard before:

Pretty Sure It's Blackbeard's Ship

The article says they "haven't found anything among the cannons, coins, anchors, and other artifacts that rules it out" as the mighty pirate's ship. 

I could be wrong about what they've found on the ship so far, but I haven't seen any positive evidence offered about the ship's identity.  Rather, I've seen people talking about an absence of evidence saying it's not the ship in question.  Does this seem like a backwards way of going about archaeology?

[Aetheling]

According to the latest news, it's confirmed that this shipwreck is the Queen Anne's Revenge

http://www.qaronline.org/archaeology/arcintro.htm

[Phidippides]

One of the artifacts recovered from the ship is a sword - possibly Blackbeard's very own.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110114/us_yblog_thelookout/was-this-blackbeards-sword